Demonstrations continue in Israel after the passing of reform law

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.3 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Protestors face water cannon outside the Israeli parliament as the bill becomes law. Also: Twitter rebranded as X as blue bird logo killed off, and is Toki the orca about to eye freedom after more than fifty years in captivity?

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0:00.0	World Football at the Women's World Cup is the podcast bringing you all the action
0:04.6	from the tournament in Australia and New Zealand.
0:07.8	Listen now by searching for World Football from the BBC World Service, wherever you get
0:13.2	your BBC podcasts.
0:18.1	This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:21.7	I'm Janak Jalil and in the early hours of Tuesday the 25th of July these are our main
0:28.6	stories.
0:30.1	Huge demonstrations have continued into the night in Israel over the passing of a controversial
0:35.0	new law aimed at curbing the powers of the Supreme Court.
0:39.6	Wildfires have killed more than 30 people in Algeria as a heat wave rages across the Mediterranean.
0:47.5	Also in this podcast...
0:50.2	She will be in the wild in a sanctuary environment where she has natural water, seas, the weather.
0:57.3	She's enriched by the critters that are swimming through her environment.
1:00.9	How a killer whale which has spent more than 50 years in captivity in Florida could soon
1:06.7	be getting a taste of freedom.
1:13.0	The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended his government's controversial
1:17.8	move to limit the powers of the Supreme Court, describing it as necessary, though he has
1:23.7	kept the door open for negotiations.
1:26.7	His comments came even as first protest looked set to continue into the night.
1:34.8	We did agree to stop the legislation.
1:36.8	It was halted for three consecutive months.
1:39.7	We agreed significant changes to the original policy and I say with sadness none of the
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